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w. s. R OG'ERS'. Signal Lantern.

No. 229,054. Patented June 22,1880.

Win emrew.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

WINFIELD SCOTT ROGERS, OF RICHMOND, INDIANA, ASSIGNOR OF ONE- .HALF OFHIS RIGHT TO SMITH FRANCIS, OF SAME PLACE.

SIGNAL-LANTERN.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 229,054, dated June 22,1880.

Application filed June 16, 1879.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, W. Soo'r'r Roenns, ofRichmond, in the county of Wayne and State of Indiana, have invented a'new and useful Improvement in Signal-Lanterns, of which the following isa specification.

My invention consists in constructing an ordinary lantern and providingmeans, hereinafter described, and specifically pointed out in theclaims, so that it can be made to produce lights of different colors,thus doing away with the necessity of having to depend onregularlyconstructed colored lanterns when wishing to signal, onelantern doing the work of several.

In the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, Figure lis a front elevation, partly in section, showing the lantern withbulls-eye magnifying-glass attached and ways for the introduction ofplates of differentcolored glass. Fig.2 is an elevation, partly insection, showing the bulls-eye and colored glass plate when held clearof the bulls-eye. Fig. 3 is an elevation, showing one of the coloredplates.

The same letters are employed in all the figures in the indication ofidentical parts.

A is an ordinary lantern, the guard B of which is cut away to admit ofthe placing of the bulls-eye magnifying-glass O, which is held in ashade or frame, 0, attached at the top to the guard D and at the bottomto the pin D. This frame 0 is flanged on its edges, as shown at O toform ways for the coloredglass plates E, formedwith a rim, E, and provided with a stem, F, bent as distinctly shown.

By raising the top of the lantern G, plates of different colors may beplaced in the ways, which drop down and rest upon the pin D, directlybehind the bulls-eye and between it and the lamp. If it is desired toshow a white light, one of the colored plates being in the ways, it ispushed up clear of the bulls eye, and held in that position by the bendin the stem F engaging the pin D.

The advantages of my invention are- First, it forms the double purposeof an ordinary lantern and a single lantern.

Second, it obviates the necessity of having two or moreregularly-constructed colored lanterns. It is a saving of oil, anda manalways has his colored lights if he wishes to signal.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. In a hand-lantern having a plain glass globe, the combination of awire frame surrounding the same and a colored signal-glass attached atone side of the globe to the wire frame, substantially as described.

2. The combination, snbstantiallyas before set forth, of the plain glassglobe, the wire guard, and the bulls-eye or magnifying-glass.

3. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plainglass globe, the wire guard, the bulls-eye or magnifying-glass, and thecolored glass.

4. The combination, substantially as befor set forth, of the plain glassglobe and the col ored glass, adapted to be supported on thelantern-frame exterior to the said globe.

5. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plainglass globe, the colored glass, and the shade adapted to hide thecolored glass.

6. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plainglass globe, the bulls eye or magnifying-glass, the shade, and theadjustable colored glass.

7. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plainglass globe, the shade provided with guideways, the colored glassadapted to slide in said guideways, and the stop-pin beyond the end ofthe shade.

8. The combination, substantially as before set forth, of the plainglass globe, the openended shade provided with guideways, the hinged topof the lantern, and the stop-pin below the lower end of the shade.

9. The combination, substantially as before set forth,of the plain glassglobe, the shade, the colored glass provided with a prop-handle, and thestop-pin below the lower end of the shade.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I affix my signaturein presence of two witnesses.

WINFIELD SCOTT ROGERS.

Witnesses I H. J. HAYWARD, JOHN HOWARTH.

